Fighter performance improvement ideas

[Guest]

Here are some things that could be done to improve the performance of fighters.

-Remove all reflections, shadows, shaders etc. on them if they aren't already removed.

-Combine fighters into "squadron entities". This basically makes one squadron to behave as a single fighter that just looks like a squadron of fighters flying in formation. The firepower of this entity scales based on the amount of fighters in it. Fighters in this entity can't be targeted or controlled separately, and whenever the squadron is hit a fighter will dodge but won't actually start spinning or doing any evasive maneuvers (flak turrets consume dodges from all fighters in the squadron). When a fighter in the entity loses its dodges or runs out of HP it is destroyed. With this it would be possible to reduce the amount of fighter entities on a single ship from 120 to just 10 without reducing the actual amount of fighters or firepower of fighter squadrons.